Apogee Symphony 32 users, upgrading to 64?

[dkatz42]

Seems pointless unless you have more than 32 channels of Apogee I/O gear (or want to use SBus at the same time as your I/O gear) *and* you're slot-limited in the MacPro. Otherwise you're presumably already happy with one or two original Symphony cards.

Looks like the max has been boosted from 96 I/O (three old cards) to 128 (two new cards.)

They've doubled the capacity in half the space, though the original card had a lot of empty real estate, which is nice.

But at the end of the day it probably doesn't benefit most people (like me) that have the original.

[mazymus]

Sorry for the extremely noob question, but does 32 vs 64 talk about the actual track numbers in the software or number of instruments it can record at the same time (or inserts, etc).

My wife who is the musician typically has ~40-50 tracks per song. I'm thinking of ditching the m-audio audiophine 192 card and get apogee's pci card to go with her rosetta 200.

Also, how does the PCI 32 work with XP vs windows 7?

Thank you

[mazymus]

Originally Posted by mazymus

Sorry for the extremely noob question, but does 32 vs 64 talk about the actual track numbers in the software or number of instruments it can record at the same time (or inserts, etc).

My wife who is the musician typically has ~40-50 tracks per song. I'm thinking of ditching the m-audio audiophine 192 card and get apogee's pci card to go with her rosetta 200.

Also, how does the PCI 32 work with XP vs windows 7?

Thank you

shoot, just realized that card only works on macs... rats

need to find a better pci interface between rosetta 200 and my PC. m-audio drivers are just too buggy.